Under Construction

Here is our Store and Garage.

Our gorgeous bathroom that will get tiled.

This is our main room which is the living room and dining room. There are still a bunch of boxes and furniture in the house that need to be removed to make space for our stuff, once it gets here.

This is the house we will stay in while we are working on fixing up the home.

This area with shelves will become a shower with a window.

We knocked down a wall and will add another door to connect the den to Zander's room in the back. The door on the right leads to the master bedroom.

The kitchen needed some cement work and will be tiled.

The front stoop will be enclosed with a braai and hopefully sliding glass doors to let the light in. This will probably be AFTER we move in since it will take a while to save up some cash.

This is our little farm house from the front. Looks tiny but it is pretty open inside. We have a nice lawn and a garden (that is suffering now that the lambs were in there and ate everything up to waist high). We are excited about getting it all fixed up and painted and ready to move in.

Horse Riding!

On Saturday we decided to get the horses and ride as a family. Zander rode Rock, Mamma rode Snippy, Pappa and Owen rode Kolboi...no photos of Pappa riding but if you can imagine it - his feet were almost touching the ground! It looked pretty funny; the poor horse was under serious pressure!

At the end of our ride Zander and Mamma decided to ride down to the gate and back. Rock thought he would run and Zander didn't have a good hold on him to stop him. He was scared but one of the farm workers was luckily close by to help. All in all it was a fun family day!

We have been busy in the past month. Vacation by the sea, road trip to visit friends in Reitz...now we are getting our home fixed up and ready for when our container of possessions arrives. Things are not as fast and easy as they are in the US so it will all get done on "Africa time"...eventually. :-)

Here is the view from my Father in laws house by the sea. What a nice little vacation! We went on a weekend road trip to visit some friends and the kids liked riding in the back of the truck bed.

This is the entrace to our town - Rouxville - don't blink, you might miss it.

Zander rode on Vonk ("Spark" in English) and he also rode on his horse Rock. Mamma also got her first riding lesson. It was fun for all of us!

This is Lourens's Dad, Japie, cutting the Lucerne (alfalfa).

My Hotmail email address was hacked so if you would like to keep in touch, please send Lourens a message on FB with your email address, as I have lost all my contacts. Hope all is well and we will be in touch. Take care!

-Michelle